27% of the seats are going to be reserved in government funded organizations. 54% increase of the seats is being planned.
So, if a college had 100 seats earlier for all merit students, it would now have 154 seats for all students. Out of the 154 seats, 112 will be for merit only and 42 will be reserved for the backward classes.
The issue everyone seems to sign off on and accuse the government of is that those 27% students will tarnish the reputations of the merit academies.
This is understandable to an extent but note that those 42 seats will also be merit based, albiet on a lesser scale. Now, if these 42 seats get filled, what does the government hope to achieve in an ideal world?
The government hopes that intermingling of forward and backward classes will help better society, that the backward classes will have access to such institutions on a "lower merit scale" since they have not had the same kind of oppurtunities at an earlier age.
Having said that, the "lower merit scale" will only show them the way inside. To get out of such a school, the student has to improve, raise his standard to the level of the "high merit scale" and match his colleagues. Think again!
